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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the meaning of the statement that the dialect "the locusts ate me" is anomalous?

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The questioner : May Allah reward you. We have previously established that "the locusts ate me" is an anomalous dialect...

The Shaykh : Anomalous means rare relative to the language of the Arabs, yes.

The questioner : It is permissible.

The Shaykh : It is not permissible for us. So do not come to me with a nominative case marker and its pronoun and say, "I am on the dialect of 'the locusts ate me,'" or else we will unleash them upon you.

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : This is their dialect. For us now, it is our dialect. You see, on this dialect, you say "came" for people, yes, on our dialect, on the dialect of "the locusts ate me"...

The questioner : It is valid but rare.

The Shaykh : It is valid but rare, but the view we mentioned is that it is from the category of explanatory apposition, and that the subject is the pronoun, not just the plural marker, which resolves the issue.
Source alathar.net

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